PCBNew doesn't close
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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Bug Description
Often when I close PCBNew the window and taskbar icon disappear, but PCBNew continues to run. It then becomes impossible to open the layout again, because KiCad thinks the layout is already open. Well yes, it may well be open, but it's not visible. The only workaround I know of is to kill pcbnew.exe with the task manager. However, it can then prove difficult or impossible to restart PCBNew, sometimes necessitating restarting Windows to restore normal operation (there may be a less drastic workaround, such as killing a stuck executable, but I haven't found it as yet).
Running on Windows 10, despite what it says below.
Application: Pcbnew
Version: (5.1.4)-1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,
Boost: 1.68.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.61.1
Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
USE_
USE_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
BUILD_
KICAD_
KICAD_
KICAD_SPICE=ON
Changed in kicad: | |
importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
status: | Expired → Fix Released |
Disclaimer: not a dev had a similar experience while running KiCad in a virtual machine.
It might be that you require a bit of patience here. I think the footprint cache is written when closing pcbnew which depending on your setup might take a while. Try to close pcbnew and wait for a while (a few minutes). If the same problem persists then try to delete the footprint cache (in the project directory). please report back if any of these things allow pcb new to open normally.